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Emerging gender identities : understanding the diverse experiences of today's youth / Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2020]Description: xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781587434341
  • 1587434342
  • 9781587434952
  • 1587434954
Subject(s):
Contents:
Making important distinctions: Transgender experiences and emerging gender identities -- How language and categories shape gender identities -- Controversies in care -- Seeing the person : Foundations for relationship -- Locating your area of engagement -- Locating the person : A relational-narrative approach -- Engaging youth : Looking beneath the surface -- Ministry structures for youth -- Recovering a hermeneutic of Christian hope.
Summary: This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse gender identities that are being embraced by an increasing number of adolescents. Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer an honest, scientifically informed, compassionate, and nuanced treatment for all readers who care about or work with gender-diverse youth: pastors, church leaders, parents, family members, youth workers, and counselors. Yarhouse and Sadusky help readers distinguish between current mental health concerns, such as gender dysphoria, and the emerging gender identities that some young people turn to for a sense of identity and community. Based on the authors' significant clinical and ministry experience, this book casts a vision for practically engaging and ministering to teens navigating diverse gender-identity concerns. It also equips readers to critically engage gender theory based on a Christian view of sex and gender.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 261.8357 Y28 Available 33111010391148
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse gender identities that are being embraced by an increasing number of adolescents. Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer an honest, scientifically informed, compassionate, and nuanced treatment for all readers who care about or work with gender-diverse youth: pastors, church leaders, parents, family members, youth workers, and counselors.

Yarhouse and Sadusky help readers distinguish between current mental health concerns, such as gender dysphoria, and the emerging gender identities that some young people turn to for a sense of identity and community. Based on the authors' significant clinical and ministry experience, this book casts a vision for practically engaging and ministering to teens navigating diverse gender-identity concerns. It also equips readers to critically engage gender theory based on a Christian view of sex and gender.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making important distinctions: Transgender experiences and emerging gender identities -- How language and categories shape gender identities -- Controversies in care -- Seeing the person : Foundations for relationship -- Locating your area of engagement -- Locating the person : A relational-narrative approach -- Engaging youth : Looking beneath the surface -- Ministry structures for youth -- Recovering a hermeneutic of Christian hope.

This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse gender identities that are being embraced by an increasing number of adolescents. Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer an honest, scientifically informed, compassionate, and nuanced treatment for all readers who care about or work with gender-diverse youth: pastors, church leaders, parents, family members, youth workers, and counselors. Yarhouse and Sadusky help readers distinguish between current mental health concerns, such as gender dysphoria, and the emerging gender identities that some young people turn to for a sense of identity and community. Based on the authors' significant clinical and ministry experience, this book casts a vision for practically engaging and ministering to teens navigating diverse gender-identity concerns. It also equips readers to critically engage gender theory based on a Christian view of sex and gender.

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